Showing posts with label MEotW. Show all posts
Showing posts with label MEotW. Show all posts

Sunday, November 17, 2024

MEotW: cuòzōng‐fùzá

The Mandarin Expression of the Week is:

How can we help Mandarin-speaking people to more deeply appreciate just how complex our bodies’ cells are?


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Sunday, November 10, 2024

MEotW: fàzhǐ

The Mandarin Expression of the Week is:

What is one perhaps surprising way in which we can describe in Mandarin the intense anger some feel regarding false religion’s involvement in war?




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Sunday, November 03, 2024

MEotW: lǐngxiù

The Mandarin Expression of the Week is:

Why might it be that the Mandarin word for “leader” on a certain level of literalness means “collar sleeves”?


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Sunday, October 27, 2024

MEotW: qūshǐ

The Mandarin Expression of the Week is:

What can help us face the challenge of actually talking with people in Mandarin about the evidence that life was created?


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Sunday, October 20, 2024

MEotW: guāngyīn

The Mandarin Expression of the Week is:

How can we Mandarin field language learners make good use of our precious, limited available time in the Mandarin field?


“guāngyīn” _Pīnyīn_ Plus info, Song 56 (music+_Pīnyīn_), on iPhone 13 mini (landscape orientation)

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Sunday, October 13, 2024

MEotW: Zhōngyāng Zhǎnglǎo‐Tuán

The Mandarin Expression of the Week is:

How is the Mandarin expression meaning “Governing Body” constructed? Is it a problem that one of the words in it is often used in relation to the government of China?


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Sunday, October 06, 2024

MEotW: chōngtū

The Mandarin Expression of the Week is:

How can we talk in Mandarin about a war to end all wars?


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Sunday, September 29, 2024

MEotW: chuīxū

The Mandarin Expression of the Week is:

Might Chinese characters present a test for Mandarin field language learners? If so, what might they test?


Screenshot of “_chuīxū_” in 1 Co. 13:4 (nwtsty, CHS+_Pīnyīn_ WOL)

The Great Wall of China

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Friday, September 20, 2024

MEotW: miǎománg

The Mandarin Expression of the Week is:

How does the Mandarin expression “_miǎománg_” illustrate how remote the possibility is that life originated by chance?


NASA photo of the Pacific Ocean, as seen from space

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Saturday, September 14, 2024

MEotW: xiāngxìn

The Mandarin Expression of the Week is:

What are some Mandarin expressions we can keep in mind when talking to Mandarin-speakers about whom we can trust?


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Saturday, September 07, 2024

MEotW: shūtú‐tóngguī

The Mandarin Expression of the Week is:

For us Mandarin field language learners, do all language-learning “roads” lead to the same place?


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Saturday, August 31, 2024

MEotW: wāku

The Mandarin Expression of the Week is:

How is the Mandarin word for “dig” related to the Mandarin expression for “speak sarcastically”?


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Saturday, August 24, 2024

MEotW: app

The Mandarin Expression of the Week is:

How much should we let it bother us that “app” has been borrowed from English into Mandarin, even being written in Latin alphabet letters? Why might it be that it’s pronounced in Mandarin by saying out its letters?


“app” used in the Mandarin version of the 2024 Governing Body Update #5 video

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Saturday, August 17, 2024

MEotW: hǎohāo[r]

The Mandarin Expression of the Week is:

Are Chinese characters the ultimate clarifiers of meaning in Mandarin? Also, what is the correct way to pronounce Mandarin’s “r” sound?


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Saturday, August 10, 2024

MEotW: háowú

The Mandarin Expression of the Week is:

How does the Mandarin NWT Bible’s translation of 1 Corinthians 13:3 emphasize to us how futile it is to do things out of pride and not out of love?


Screenshot of “_háowú_” in 1 Co. 13:3 (nwtsty, CHS+_Pīnyīn_ WOL)

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Friday, August 02, 2024

MEotW: quèzáo

The Mandarin Expression of the Week is:

What could we say to a Mandarin-speaker who insists that evolution is a fact?




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Friday, July 26, 2024

MEotW: zhèngzhì

The Mandarin Expression of the Week is:

How might we in Mandarin bring up the topic of recent political violence?


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Saturday, July 20, 2024

MEotW: chǎojià

The Mandarin Expression of the Week is:

How can we talk in Mandarin about arguing? Should we use the same language to describe how Jesus spoke with the Pharisees, etc.?


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Sunday, July 14, 2024

MEotW: jiàoyù

The Mandarin Expression of the Week is:

Why should Mandarin field language learners be wary of what the world’s education system teaches people about Chinese characters?


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Wednesday, July 10, 2024

Pīnyīn Calligraphy Time-Lapse Video for “Ānnà”